| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | Australian | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | First-class | ||
| Matches | 2 | 43 | ||
| Runs scored | 20 | 1490 | ||
| Batting average | 6.66 | 22.92 | ||
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 3/6 | ||
| Top score | 10* | 116 | ||
| Balls bowled | 223 | 6562 | ||
| Wickets | 7 | 136 | ||
| Bowling average | 16.00 | 23.13 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 12 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 5 | ||
| Best bowling | 3/30 | 8/34 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 2/- | 45/- | ||
| Source: Cricinfo, | ||||
Charles John Eady (born 29 October 1870 in Hobart, died 20 December 1945, in Hobart) was a cricketer who played for Tasmanian clubs and representative sides in the era before Tasmania was accepted into the Sheffield Shield and other competitions.[1] He also played in Test cricket twice for Australia.
A big man, standing six feet three inches or 1.90 metres tall, Eady was an all-rounder: a hard-hitting right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. He made 116 and 112 not out for Tasmania against Victoria in 1895 and was picked for the tour to England in 1896. But he failed to do himself justice, scoring just 12 runs in the Lord's Test match, though he picked up four fairly cheap wickets. He made one more Test appearance in 1901-2, again with little success.
Eady's chief claim to being remembered is a remarkable innings played in a club match between Break o' Day and Wellington in 1902, when he scored 566 not out from a total of 908.[2] This is still the second highest score in any form of cricket, following A. E. J. Collins' 628 not out in a house match at Clifton College. He also took all 10 wickets for 42 runs in an innings for South Hobart versus East Hobart in 1906.
Eady later served as president of the Australia Board of Control, later Cricket Australia and was also a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.[3]